Rene Ebersole

About

Rene Ebersole is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and editor. She contributes to a wide variety of media outlets, including Rolling Stone, National Geographic, The Washington Post, Outside, Popular Science, Scientific American, The Nation, Prevention, and Audubon, where she worked as an editor for more than a decade. She has served as an adjunct professor at New York University’s Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program, where she received her Master's degree in journalism, and guest lectures at other universities. As a 2021-2022 MIT-Knight fellow, she investigated the legacy of junk science in the criminal justice system. She is the co-founder of the independent nonprofit Wildlife Investigative Reporters & Editors (WIRE), exposing ecosystem degradation and harm from illegal and underregulated commercial-scale exploitation of nature, wireonline.org